76 Quotes by Benjamin Tucker

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.